Magnesium Chloride is a naturally occurring salt compound.
It occurs naturally in sea water, in The Great Salt Lake of Utah, and in the Dead Sea of Israel.
"And shew I unto thee a more perfect way."
Don't just control the dust, prevent it!
Dust is a nuisance . . .
. . . as well as a health hazard . . .
. . . and an environmental pollutant.
Imagine an arena that stays dust free without constant watering.
Imagine paddocks that don't choke you and your horse every summer as the paddocks dry out.
This is easier that you think.  ECO-TERR Distributing introduces Dust-Off, a product that can solve your dust problems easily, economically, and environmentally soundly.
Dust-Off is a powdered Magnesium Chloride, a dust suppressant that is applied to the dust-affected areas. MgCl2 is unsurpassed as a dust suppressant and soil stabilizer. Additionally, it has been extensively tested to determine that it is safe for the environment, safe for horses, and safe for workers handling the product.
The effectiveness of Magnesium Chloride as a dust suppressant is due to its hygroscopic * character.
 * Meaning it readily accumulates and retains moisture directly from the air and environment.

For use in arenas, paddocks, turnouts and more . . .
Dust-Off is effective in equine riding arenas, paddocks, turnouts, round pens, dry lots, runouts - anywhere prone to dust.
Consider treating driveways and dirt roads - areas notorious for fugitive dust.

Easily and cost-effectively . . .
Keep your property and horse barn and areas dust-free.
Keep your (and your horses') lungs and eyes clean and clear of particulates.
MgCl2 has been extensively tested by the toughest critics:
The U.S. National Forestry Service has found it to be an excellent dust suppressant.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tested MgCl2.
It was then selected for use due to its ability to bind the fine dust particles to the larger particles, by absorbing and retaining moisture from the ambient ecology - from the air itself!

How It Works
Magnesium Chloride continuously absorbs moisture from the air. Therefore, equestrian surfaces treated with Dust-Off remain dust free.
In effect, it acts as a constant waterer for your round pen, riding or training arena.
Drawing water directly from the ambient air - instead of from your water well - it constantly applies the naturally captured moisture to your arena footing and flooring surface.
The Program
Dust-Off is applied by spraying the area to be treated with sufficient amounts to penetrate the layer of soil to the required depth.
For a medium-large arena (7,200 to 8,000 square feet), 3/5ths to one ton of MgCl2 is required per treatment.

In outdoor arenas, rainfall will eventually dilute the MgCl2, therefore it is best to apply the treatment at the end of your rainy season - right before the dry summer months begin.

Frequency of reapplication varies according to prevailing soil conditions, porosity, climate and traffic.

We recommend reapplication twice per year in Washington.  Arid or semi-arid regions may only require one treatment per year.   

Other areas may require more frequect treatments, for outdoor or uncovered arenas, round pens, hot walkers or paddocks.
We wish to point out that nobody ever has dust problems that are naturally occurring (with the exception of those occurring in semi-arid, desert, or similar soil conditions).  Usually, we create the dust problems for our horses all by ourselves, usually using one of two methods (possibly more, we humans are very inventive creatures).  

And it is true, dust poses a serious health risk for horses (commonly called 'heaves' which is always debilitating, often lethal).  The EPA has determined that "fugitive dust" is also a serious public air quality problem, but we are only addressing equine health care issues and systems.

Every "dusty arena" or "dusty paddock" problem is not really a dust problem, it is a soil stabilization problem.  Dust is created when the dirt underneath your surface layer works its way to the top, regardless of how many truckloads of gravel, wood chips or hog fuel, sand, field lime, biomass, concrete or cement pavement or chunks of broken concrete, rubber footing products, pulverized recycled tires or paper or plastic or . . . well, anything.

 If there is not a system that forces the footing (the top layer) to stay on top, and the soil underneath (sub-base or foundation layer) to remain undrneath, the dust and mud problems will continue to pop up.

In order to permenantly solve a dust problem, all that is needed is to make the dirt stay put.  It is called "soil stabilization," and that is what HoofGrid does. We permanently make the soil stay where you want it to stay.

Whether it is on an eighty degree slope in the middle of the monsoon season during a hurricane, or whether there are 30 head of cattle per acre in a feedlot operation, or whether there is a constant rotation of stable boarders riding their horses at all hours of the day and night on the same old arena dirt, or whether every weekend there are a thousand cars driving across or parking on your lawn.  
We don't care.  The dirt stays put!

If there is grass growing on top of the soil, our system will prevent damage to the grass sod, regardless of traffic or rainfall.  Our HoofGrid and HoofGrid HD systems cannot, however, prevent wood 'hog fuel' or wood chips from decomposing, creating a mixture of muddy-rotten-rocky-manure on your horse turnout, paddock, arena, stalls, or trailering areas.  Nature does this, and will continue doing this.

But we can make the use of gravel or sand or wood or any other type of temporary mud and dust treatment programs no longer necessary.
Anywhere.  Any environment.  Any climate.

No more mud.  

No more dust.

Ever!
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